"A book of verses, underneath the bough,A jug of wine, a loaf of bread -- and thouBeside me singing in the wilderness --Ah, wilderness were paradise enow!"

-- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as translated by Edward Fitzgerald

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Book Spine Poetry: Femme Fatale

The Duke of Deception, the Knight, the Lady, and the Priest:parallel lives, the archetype of pilgrimage -- a Byzantine journey.Women, fire, and dangerous things -- the Silk Roads, secretsof the flesh...the unknown shore, the far side of the world.